Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Hello
Friends, it's time once again to take keyboard in hand and dish the PD
scoop for the month. To lead with good news, it's NO LONGER JANUARY!

I
think we can all agree that's a good thing. See? we're making progress!
So what's in store for February? Well, as usual there will be a
Telehealth interactive broadcast on February 8th 2016 at 1PM (To find the Alaska meeting, proceed with all deliberate speed toProvidence Hospital oncology wing on Piper St. ( Go to the second
floor, walk down the lonnnnnnnng hall that stretches South from the cafe
and look for room 2401 pretty much at the end of the hall on your
right.) The speaker will be Sabina Gonder CHC Topics:
Sleep Health and Hygiene. Learn why getting enough sleep is so important
to your overall health, and steps to get more sleep every night.

Our
regular support group meeting is set for February 20th. I will have to
miss the meeting because I will be in South America, (really!) but
there is no reason that everyone else should not show up, talk with one
another, offer each other support and, most important, plot the coup
that ousts me as leader while I'm not there to cheer it on.

Pete's book, "My Degeneration"

Now available from Penn State University Press. “[An] emotionally resonant memoir.” —Publishers Weekly

Welcometo all with an interest in Parkinson's Disease. This blog was to be an information clearinghouse for the Anchorage Parkinson's Disease Support Group, where meeting schedules, agendas, speakers etc could be found. It's still that, but has also become a sort of therapeutic hobby. So I invite you to join in the discussion and experience a little therapy as well. This will be as interesting as we as a community make it. Think loud and sound off!

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